Two Magnolia Blossoms Opened This Morning in My Garden: Event of My Day!
May it be so for you.
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nanoboy
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Magnolias are interesting trees. They are considered to be some of the most primitive of the flowering plants. (That is, the ancestors of modern flowering plants looked very much like magnolias, from leaf shape to pollen grain morphology.) The trees have spirally arranged leaves, petals, and various other flower parts, a rather unique trait among angiosperms. I've been enjoying the blooms on the tree in my own front yard, even though the tree won't be as great as it could be, since it's a bit out of its natural range.
I'm a woman, a Witch, a mother, a grandmother, an eco-feminist, a gardener, a reader, a writer, and a priestess of the Great Mother Earth. Hecate appears in the
Homeric Ode to Demeter, which tells of Hades who caught Persophone
"up reluctant on his golden car and bare her away lamenting. . . . But no one, either of the deathless gods or of mortal men, heard her voice, nor yet the olive-trees bearing rich fruit: only tenderhearted Hecate, bright-coiffed, the daughter of Persaeus, heard the girl from her cave . . . ."
4 comments:
Magnolias are interesting trees. They are considered to be some of the most primitive of the flowering plants. (That is, the ancestors of modern flowering plants looked very much like magnolias, from leaf shape to pollen grain morphology.) The trees have spirally arranged leaves, petals, and various other flower parts, a rather unique trait among angiosperms. I've been enjoying the blooms on the tree in my own front yard, even though the tree won't be as great as it could be, since it's a bit out of its natural range.
nanoboy,
Thanks for the info! They're lovely aren't they?
And they smell good, too.
Very useful post! It was very useful and informative. Great thanks.
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